Error Installing PERL modules "unrecognized command line option -fstack -protector"

2010

Mar

Cygwin
PERL

unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector" error usually comes on Cygwin when installing PERL modules.
For example when installing the DBI module or DBD::MySQL perl module, the following error comes on cygwin :

cp lib/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Base.pm blib/lib/DBI/Gofer/Serializer/Base.pm
cp dbipport.h blib/arch/auto/DBI/dbipport.h
cp lib/DBI/Gofer/Execute.pm blib/lib/DBI/Gofer/Execute.pm
cp lib/DBI/DBD.pm blib/lib/DBI/DBD.pm
cp lib/Win32/DBIODBC.pm blib/lib/Win32/DBIODBC.pm
cp lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm blib/lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm
cp lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm blib/lib/DBD/ExampleP.pm
cp lib/DBI/ProfileData.pm blib/lib/DBI/ProfileData.pm
/usr/bin/perl.exe -p -e "s/~DRIVER~/Perl/g" ./Driver.xst > Perl.xsi
/usr/bin/perl.exe /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5
.10/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Perl.xs > Perl.xsc && mv Perl.xsc Perl.c
gcc -c   -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fs
tack-protector -I/usr/local/include -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3   -DVERSION=\"1.609\" -DX
S_VERSION=\"1.609\"  "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin/CORE"  -W -Wall -Wpointe
r-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wno-comment -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-cast-qual -Wmiss
ing-noreturn -Wno-unused-parameter Perl.c
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-fstack-protector"
make: *** [Perl.o] Error 1
  TIMB/DBI-1.609.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

This error is due to older version of GCC in your system. The stack protector was introduced as of GCC 4. Look the version in your system by running gcc -v.

Update your system if you are using cygwin run setup.exe and from the package list check GCC4, as shown below.

Cygwin install GCC4 solve unrecognized command line option -fstack-protector
(Search for GCC)